How to Use superhighway in a Sentence

superhighway

noun
  • The route from Chad to the Amazon isn’t the only dust superhighway.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2015
  • The spinal cord is like a superhighway for the body’s nervous system.
    Gail Dutton, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The superhighway that runs between Mr. Smith’s amygdala and his tear ducts is deep and well worn.
    Taffy Brodesser-Akner, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
  • The reprieve from the heat can be traced to the shape of the jet stream, which is the high-altitude wind current that divides hot and cold air and is the superhighway for storms.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
  • Think of this as the width of the digital superhighway: the wider the road or, in this case, the wider the block of frequencies being used, the more data that can be sent at once.
    Bob O'Donnell, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2021
  • In the latter half of the 19th century, the Wisconsin River through the Dells was a superhighway for the lumber trade.
    Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 June 2019
  • In France and countries to the south, these superhighways usually come with tolls.
    Rick Steves, USA TODAY, 11 June 2019
  • The bridge was a key link in a nearly decadelong project to complete a superhighway connecting the Sinaloa coast to the McAllen region in Texas.
    ExpressNews.com, 28 Dec. 2019
  • Holes around pipes or wiring are often overlooked, but can act as a mouse superhighway system through your home.
    Mary Beth Griggs, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Every empty space is a building site; the plan is to transform the main coastal route from single-lane mayhem to a sleek superhighway.
    Jane Alexander, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The Mesoamerican Reef, the second-largest barrier reef in the world, is a bit of a superhighway for sharks, turtles and rays living in the Caribbean.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 July 2022
  • Even though the mouse could not taste that the water was sweet, cells in the gut sensed the sugar and sent signals along the vagus nerve — a superhighway connecting body to brain — that taught the animal to want more.
    Esther Landhuis, Quanta Magazine, 14 June 2024
  • The emergence of the automobile, the superhighway and the road trip were remarkable developments in the US.
    Channon Hodge, CNN, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Building a superhighway through Boston Street is not that.
    Luke Broadwater, baltimoresun.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The baby turtles often exited the superhighway to hang out in floating mats of seaweed called at the ocean's surface.
    Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2014
  • By the time Gondwana began to bust up, dinosaurs and other iconic animal groups had used it as a superhighway to spread across much of the Southern Hemisphere.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2019
  • From above, that line of buses and RVs and jeeps looked just like the photo that circulated the internet this year, a fifteen-lane superhighway snaking through a beige moonscape.
    Hazlitt, 1 Nov. 2023
  • It’s said the federal government plans a superhighway into New Orleans across the lake and will be a direct airline from Chicago to that city.
    NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The animals use the Eagle River Valley as a kind of bruin superhighway, moving up and down the river all summer long.
    Matt Tunseth, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2018
  • The immune system fights on the front lines, but the body’s superhighway of information reaches every cell when disease and distress is present.
    Deepak Chopra, Md, Facp and Rudolph E. Tanzi, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Along with the immune system, there’s the vagus nerve that functions like a superhighway, running from the brain to the gut and directly interfacing with the microbiome.
    Will Stone, NPR, 25 June 2024
  • So far, the concept for a 760-mph superhighway, which attracted a raft of entrepreneurs seeking to realize Musk’s vision, has failed to achieve much traction.
    Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
  • Darwin's Arch, a majestic piece of land that rises up suddenly in the middle of nowhere, is on a superhighway for hammerheads.
    José Andrés, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Abnormally cold waters have led to an abundance of krill and anchovies, which in turn has led to a superhighway of humpback whales off the California coast.
    Deborah Netburnstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Many great seafaring societies had turned the sea into a trading and cultural superhighway by the time of Hokusai’s work.
    Sverre Alvik, Forbes, 7 June 2022
  • Bikes were such a popular mode of urban transportation that cities scrambled to build cycling superhighways for them.
    Alissa Walker, Curbed, 13 July 2018
  • The island is a stop on the Atlantic Flyway, a superhighway for migrating birds traversing North America.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 24 May 2024
  • As part of the Belt and Road Initiative, the government has been building major infrastructure projects like high-speed trains and superhighways through the remote province.
    Michael Hardy, Wired, 4 Apr. 2020
  • Also, a series of more than a dozen supercykelsti — or cycle superhighways — have been set up to create higher-speed, traffic-light-free bike paths from the suburbs that stretch up to 15 miles.
    Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2019
  • To celebrate this milestone, Billboard spoke with some of today's modern metal mavens on how Seventh Son played a role on their travels along the heavy metal superhighway.
    Ron Hart, Billboard, 11 Apr. 2018

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